From rural Yorkshire to the mega metropolis of Shenzhen. Follow our adventures as we embark on a new life in China.
I guess now is a good time to put aside my psychology studies, in particular my report on change blindness across three perpetual categories using the flicker effect, and give a brief update on our lives in China (sorry for neglecting this for the past few months (year)). Today we learnt that Hong Kong has … Continue reading Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
There are somethings you can talk about and some that you can’t. For the time being some of our updates from February onwards will remain covered by a virtual veil. Everything is going OK with us here and our thoughts are with everyone back at home. Strawberry cheese tea
We've been on the run for nineteen days and in that time we've taken three flights and seen three different countries, Hong Kong, Cambodia and now Malaysia. After fourteen days in Cambodia, we shook off the dust, cleaned our shoes (again, again, again) and headed to Penang, a small Malaysian island in the Indian Ocean. … Continue reading N-n-n-n-nineteen
We're now back in the UK for our summer holidays and with just a few days left I'm sat looking out at the cold damp British weather in late July thinking back to what I've forgotten to blog about. So this post is going to be about a trip we made to Guangzhou back in … Continue reading Guangzhou
It's been a busy couple of months over here in China, so busy neither of us have kept this blog up to date, sorry! A couple of weeks ago, I filmed one of my trips to Hong Kong so you could all get a flavour for what's it's like out and about and on public … Continue reading I need teabags
Last year felt like the longest year of my life. Our family packed in so much stuff, it makes my head hurt thinking about how we did it. In chronological order this is how it all unfolded... January We always knew 2018 would be epic but little did we know what lay in store for … Continue reading Recap – 2018
From slightly more then 6000 miles away in sunny warm Hong Kong, Merry Christmas everyone! We'll catch up soon but until then here are some photos of our festivities.
We've lived here nearly 3 months and this was somewhere we had planned to visit within the first couple of weeks. Anyway, stuff happens, but eventually we decided to head on over to the Dafen oil painting village and buy some pictures to cover our bland apartment walls. How to get to Dafen Dafen is … Continue reading The Oil Painting Workshop
The Guangzhou to Hong Kong high speed rail has been opened a couple of weeks now. I've used it a few times and on my last return journey I decided I'd photograph some key bits of info. What is High Speed Rail? For some time the Chinese and Kong Kong governments had been talking about … Continue reading This is High Speed Rail
It's holiday season in China and it all started last Monday, 24th September. With a full moon shining, everyone celebrated the Mid Autumn Festival. We headed to Hong Kong for the weekend and visited family and friends. I must add, traveling late Friday evening is much better as the border crossing was very quiet unlike … Continue reading Mid Autumn and Golden Week
These guys really know how to clean up after a T10 typhoon. Winds of 173 kph and gusts of up to 223 kph were reported by the Hong Kong observatory, stronger than Hurricane Florence that hit North Carolina last week. We emerged from our shelter the day after the storm and snapped a few pictures of … Continue reading The Big Chinese Cleanup
Firstly it looks like we avoided the full force of Super Typhoon Mangkhut. It's passed by Hong Kong around 100km south. The city has issued a force 10 hurricane signal and I can see why. We are currently experiencing some very severe weather with very heavy rain fall and large gusts of wind. Though, to … Continue reading Mangkhut – update
You may or may not have seen the news about Typhoon Mangkhut sweeping across South Asia. Its just left a ton of devastation in the Philippines and is now heading over to the Pearl river delta region of China. This includes Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen. Quick weather fact. A typhoon differs from a cyclone or … Continue reading Mangkhut
After showing our faces at the Shenzhen Visa office, my wife and the rest of the teachers headed back to school. I stayed in the area and explored a little. I found another giant Mall called KK, ended up in Starbucks, ordered my usual decaf soy latte, and watched China go by. I checked the … Continue reading Park Life
Nothing specific to talk about today so I'll just go through some of my normal routine. Well, as normal as it can be considering I've spent the last 40 odd years in England and we're now fully immersed in modern day Chinese culture. My family's school is a little unfinished so for the next couple … Continue reading Normal Life